Live Action's Planned Parenthood Video

As with a lot Andrew Breitbart does, it's wise to exercise a
healthy dose of skepticism. The conservative media mogul who brought the
world the Shirley Sherrod non-scandal,
is now hosting a new undercover video about Planned Parenthood. In the
video, a Planned Parenthood worker appears disturbingly eager to help
two people receive abortions for 14 and 15-year-old girls without going
through any legal provisions. When speaking with Planned Parenthood,
the couple also suggests that the young girls are prostitutes. Despite
that, the worker happily recommends an abortion provider that has less
strict "protocols" regarding their age and identification

The undercover job was carried out
by pro-life activist Lila Rose for the group Live Action. The group
released the following edited video followed by thesetwo videos they say are the full unedited tapes:

Planned
Parenthood insists on the highest standards of care, and safeguards the
trusted relationship we have with patients, families and communities.
What appears on edited tapes made public today is not consistent with
Planned Parenthood's practices, and is under review. Phyllis Kinsler,
CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central New Jersey (PPCNJ), has stated
that, "the behavior of our employee, as portrayed on the video, if
accurate, violates PPCNJ policies, as well as our core values of
protecting the welfare of minors and complying with the law, and
appropriate action is being taken."

Additionally, Planned
Parenthood says its offices caught wind of Live Actions tactics and
contacted the FBI about an illegal sex trafficking operation. Whether or
not the woman who appeared in the video contacted the FBI is not known.
Here's what's buzzing in the blogosphere:

When asked how long a girl might have to wait to get back to the work
of the sex trade after an abortion, two weeks minimum is the answer. He
protests, “We’ve still got to make money.” The clinic worker understands
his predicament and so advises that the girls can still work “Waist up,
or just be that extra action walking by” to advertise the girls who are
still at full-body work. It’s chilling. It’s ridiculous...

Jeremy Schulman
at Media Matters: "Even if Live Action's video doesn't take the
employee out of context, the incident obviously doesn't show Planned
Parenthood covering up child sex trafficking. That's because Planned
Parenthood has already reported the 'potential sex trafficking' to law enforcement officials."

It
seems that the national office figured out what happened — but that
doesn’t explain the enthusiasm with which this clinic advised the
undercover reporters, nor of the manager’s offer to personally
streamline the process for the putative pimp, either. Plus, if she
played along with the pair, why then refer them to MMA for abortions
because MMA doesn’t get audited stringently?

Rose
isn't going to get anywhere with her fraud. The only question is which
is worse: falsely accusing Planned Parenthood of complicity in a child
sex ring or forcing authorities to divert resources from pursuing real
crimes while they investigate whether her hoax was, in fact, a hoax.
Either way, the only thing her actions accomplish is to further
discredit the playbook of clowns like Andrew Breitbart.

At least one of Live Action's campaigns against Planned Parenthood turned up actual wrongdoing. At a clinic in Indiana in 2009, an employee was fired
and another resigned after Live Action released video of them saying
they wouldn't report it when Rose, posing as a 13-year-old, said her
31-year-old boyfriend impregnated her.

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